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RUinHamiltonPark wrote:
There should be cans inside.

The stations should accomodate the real world, not fantasy land where no one eats on the train and everyone carries off their AM NY.

You must be living in your own fantasy...
...9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, 9-11, you do remember don't you ?

Monroe wrote:
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RUinHamiltonPark wrote:
Why is it the schools' problem?

Is there anything Republicans in NJ won't blame on teachers? Teachers in NJ are like the local Benghazi. Mention another problem, somehow it comes back to that.

Meanwhile, you have 565 municipalities, some not even a square mile big, with a few thousand people and their own police departments and municipal officials.

And this blowhard is the biggest supporter of the Port Authority. The Port Authority is spending millions in Union City- a city with no port, no bridge, no PA facility at all...and I guess it's a mere coincidence that Jersey City and Hoboken get nothing but shutdowns. Surely it has nothing to do with their mayor!

Republicans nationally just blame cities for everything just because cities have liberals, gays, immigrants, minorities, Muslims, and all the other scapegoats that distract from their agenda just being "say no to Obama", tax breaks for the rich, shoving religion down everyone's throats, guns for all, and other winners.

'RU'kidding, lol? Maybe spending billions and billions of dollars on JC education, funded by those same Republican taxpayers you seem to hate, means they can't have an opinion on how that money is spent? Asking for accountability isn't the same as blaming someone or something. It's the way things work in the world, unless you're the type that wants a blank checkbook and zero responsibility for the outcome.

1/3 of JC students don't graduate. 500 million dollars a year from suburban taxpayers to support such poor performance. Are you proud of that?

moobycow wrote:
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RUinHamiltonPark wrote:
Mooby

I don't see much new, big development (the kind that will spur similar development in the surrounding blocks) much in town aside from the Powerhouse area and Cast Iron II. We hear about Canal Crossing and that area north of LSP. But nothing. And despite prices going up.

In DT we have new buildings going up in Newport, Harborside, Liberty Harbor, Grove St, multiple in the PAD, two recently approved in the HP area to go along with Hamilton Sq South which should start construction next year. 2 new mid-rise apartments recently opened in Paulus Hook. I'm not sure where you are looking, but downtown is full of new construction.

The area north of LSP is all owned by the people who did Liberty Harbor and they want to build even bigger buildings there. They are actively working on at least 1 new building and will continue to infill but they don't generally build all of them at once and will work like Newport does and start the new buildings as the old ones are finished. The next step is taking down the boy club building and putting in a new 36 story building, extending Grove St and putting in a park.

More on what is happening now and future plans .(http://ironstate.net/properties-liberty-harbor.html)

Here's a handy list. Keep in mind they missed a few that know of in HP.

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/04 ... dential_building_boom.php


That anyone could look at DT and think 'I don't see much happening' is crazy.

moobycow wrote:
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RUinHamiltonPark wrote:
Oh please.

You do realize the taxes the city will take from the occupancy tax?

The jobs created...and by the way, most of them will not be jobs that 07302/07310 will be interested in...

Please save the histrionics for people who can't see through the agenda.

The only problem with abatements is we don't have more of them.

We're normally on the same page, but from reading the above I take it you think that without abatements the development won't happen. I think this is completely incorrect. DTJC is now some of the most expensive real estate in the country. If a developer won't build here because they don't get an abatement, the next guy will.

We're not getting extra development because of this, we're getting the same development that makes the developer extra money.

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JSleeze wrote:


Memo to you, Mr. Grittier, more authentic than thou - life existed before you came along. Just because you "discovered" where you live doesn't mean that people weren't there long before you living their lives - imagine it: they weren't even waiting for you to arrive, to deem it the hip, hidden gem that you've decided it is. As for what is and isn't in JC (and yes, I've been around long enough to have a very well-informed opinion and don't need to scrape yours off the bottom of my shoe...) there are two Jersey City's: the one entrenched in poverty and urban blight and there's downtown. Is downtown perfect? Hell no. Compared to a lot of other places with a similar cost of living, it sucks. Does crime happen downtown, of course it does - with greater regularity than most people realize or care to admit. But most of the census tracts downtown have median incomes that fall in the upper 5% of the country. Many of the census tracts in Greenville and Bergen Lafayette have median incomes that are below the poverty level. The Times has this in a very user-friendly interactive map that I'm sure you can google and find.

So.... get you head out of your ass. No matter how much you want to stroke yourself into thinking you are just a little smarter and know the real story... the real story is you have chosen to live in the ghetto and not everyone else has.

I remember from another thread the User was planning to sell his properties in GV and move back to Brooklyn. He's just hyping the area like RE agents have been doing to sell properties. He won't get a good price if potential buyers are staying away.